Firefox3 - can't deinstall

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sat May 1 19:20:20 UTC 2010


On Sat, 1 May 2010, Bruce Cran wrote:

> On Saturday 01 May 2010 19:14:28 John Pollock wrote:
>
>> When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make deinstall, I get a error
>> message that port is not installed.
>
> You should use pkg_delete instead: running "make deinstall" could fail if the
> port has been updated since installing it.

Aren't pkg_delete -f and make deinstall the same thing, or effectively 
the same thing?

Also, the last part of that doesn't make sense to me.  There are error 
messages on make deinstall if the files have changed since the original 
install, but it shouldn't prevent the deinstall.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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